World | Iraq 8 Rockets Hit Iraqi Air Base Four Iraqi officers are wounded at Balad Air Base By Neal Colgrass Posted Jan 12, 2020 1:51 PM CST Copied In this Monday, July 20, 2015 file photo, a member of the Iraqi SWAT team stands guard as security forces and others gather next to a US-made F-16 fighter jet during the delivery ceremony at Balad air base, Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File) Eight rockets landed on an Iraqi air base Sunday and injured four Iraqi officers—but who perpetrated the attack remains unclear. Iraq's military says the Katyusha rockets struck Balad Air Base, which hosts foreign contractors and US troops roughly 46 miles north of Baghdad, CNN reports. Al Jazeera notes that the base also hosts US trainers, advisers, and a company that maintains F-16 aircraft. Most of the US airmen stationed there had left before the missiles arrived. No one has claimed responsibility for the strike, which comes days after Iran fired ballistic missiles at Iraqi bases amid fever-high tensions between Washington and Tehran. Read These Next One critical island in Iran has remained unscathed in airstrikes. Iran's new supreme leader is said to already have war wounds. Girl who vanished in 2020 in California is found in North Carolina. Retired general, UFO expert has been missing for 11 days. Report an error